Kikai-jima, Shidooke reef: Site 2, Corymbose and tabular Acropora facies: Holocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Leptoria phrygia (Ellis and Solander 1786)
Platygyra daedalea (Ellis and Solander 1786)
Goniastrea retiformis (Lamarck 1816)
Favia stelligera (Dana 1846)
Montastrea curta (Dana 1846)
Favites chinensis (Verrill 1866)
Favites abdita (Ellis and Solander 1786)
Echinopora gemmacea (Lamarck 1816)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Pavona minuta Wells 1954
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora gemmifera (Brook 1892)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Pocillopora eydouxi Edwards and Haime 1860
Pocillopora verrucosa (Ellis and Solander 1786)
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 28.4° North, 130.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Holocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Holocene
Age range of interval: 0.0117 - 0 m.y. ago
Age estimate: 7290 to 3270 YBP (14C (calibrated))
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Surface of Holocene section (Terrace II) 7290-3270 years ago
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "reef rocks"
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:165206
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Krause
Modifier:M. Krause Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-01-15 02:38:30 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2015-04-15 02:38:30
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

54026. C. Hongo. 2012. Holocene key coral species in the Northwest Pacific: indicators of reef formation and reef ecosystem responses to global climate change and anthropogenic stresses in the near future. Quaternary Science Reviews 35:82-99 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]